Antibiotics Simplified 3rd Edition

Great book which entirely lives up to the title. This book makes learning antibiotics a breeze. Antibiotics are some of the hardest drugs to learn, at least they were for me and I read through this book and felt much more confident going into my pharmacology exam. This book was only recommended for my course and I am glad I bought it and studied it. Easy to read and understand and it wasn't too terribly lengthy. The book is organized based upon classes of antibiotics and then goes into details on the specifics and what each is used to treat. It breaks the treatment into Great for, okay for and not good for so that you can sort of organize them in your head. Overall, great read and I feel that this book is a must have for any pharmacy class that requires and in depth knowledge of antibiotics.

This book was recommended to me by different pharmacists in all walks of life from my community pharmacist, clinical preceptor, pharmacy residents, and other students from other schools. I wish this had been recommended to me when I took Infectious Disease in school. All the information is given just like the title says - Simplified. Even though it's simplified, it's not missing information! Highly recommended. I would've done so much better in on my exams had I had this to review with. I'm definitely going to use this to prepare for my clinical rotations!

I am a first year resident. I never really felt like I got a solid grip on "bugs and drugs" in medical school so I bought this book to brush up before taking my Step 3 exam. While it's far from an exhaustive reference, I found it really helpful for review. It's also fairly readable and does a good job of explaining basic concepts and highlighting "pearls" that often come up in exams and clinical situations. I found it helpful for exam prep and will continue to refer to it to refresh my memory. I would definitely recommend it to medical students or residents.

Antibiotics Simplified is an amazing reference for my pharmacotherapy class. It lays out the facts and details without rambling.The only problem my classmates and I have with this book is that it is paperback bound and hard to hold open to the right page. Someone in my class got the idea to go to office max to get spiral bound. I HIGHLY recommend you do the same. Only cost me $3.50.

This is one of the better textbooks I have ever seen. The authors simplify everything down to where it's easy to understand and learn antibiotics. More school especially nursing schools should adopt this text as it truly simplifies the very complex world of antibiotics.

The book is exactly as the name implies. While detailed reviews of PK/PD, interactions, and spectra are left out, Antibiotics Simplified focuses on the common clinical key points of each antibiotic class. This includes: mechanism of action, spectra of common pathogens, common/class unique adverse events and clinical pearls.While it won't replace your sanford guide in practice, I highly recommend this book as a review/pocket guide for Pharmacy/Nursing/Medical students and residents.

This book covers a great deal of territory very quickly. Dense, but very readable, text with well explained rationales for antibiotic therapies. The rest of the book gives great overviews of individual agents followed by concise, high-yield summary of agents.

I'm understanding antibiotics much better thanks to this book. I have a paperback copy and the kindle version.Problems with the kindle app/ version.1) The index is useless. Chapter 2 and one letter?? And you can't go to the chapter from the index. Very bad for a wiring reference2) there is a weird quirk where a number 5 is substituted for an =. Example mic 5 2 .I would love to be able to use this as a work reference, but the index problem prohibits this.